**Hi, I’m Breno!**

With **over two decades of experience** crafting **digital products**, I am a **Design Executive** who operates at the exact intersection of **Strategic UX and measurable business growth**.
Most recently working as Head of UX at N26, my leadership focus is grounded in **relentless accountability**, scaling organizational maturity, and partnering directly with C-level stakeholders to turn user experience into a primary commercial engine.
I specialize in **making the complex possible**, leading high-performing, multidisciplinary teams to build resilient financial ecosystems where **design craft meets business impact**.

UX • Branding • Design
From foundational brand building to systemic UX leadership.

Early roles at global consultancies like FutureBrand and as the co-founder of the digital agency Updott deeply rooted my expertise in visual identity, digital planning, and market strategy.

Recognizing that a brand's ultimate truth is defined by its interactive touchpoints, I transitioned my focus entirely into product design and user experience. This trajectory allows me to treat UX as the operational heart of a brand.

Whether democratizing wealth-building at N26, navigating complex blockchain banking at Nuri, or shaping early-stage MVPs, I leverage this dual perspective to ensure every product is extremely easy to use, visually compelling, structurally engineered to drive adoption, trust, and revenue.

Where design meets business impact.

As a Design Executive, my leadership is driven by defining clear, measurable outcomes and empowering teams to build the solutions.

I believe that true business impact happens when people actually enjoy the journey. By fostering an enthusiastic, psychologically safe environment (and remaining present to offer hands-on support without micromanaging), I enable teams to navigate complexity with confidence.

This balance of optimistic leadership and relentless commercial accountability has driven the following results:

Measurable business impact

Accountability: Doubling N26's lending volumes in a single year (2024-2025) through design-led initiatives.
Market penetration: Drove a 10x increase in investment product awareness. Furthermore, hit 100% of the business case targets for the N26 Invest Ready Made Funds a full month ahead of schedule, resulting in 3x+ the average Assets under Management (AuM) per user.
Product upselling: Boosted premium membership penetration by 10pp by developing and implementing a strategic "Upgrades Framework".

Scaling operations

Systemic efficiency: Led the evolution of the N26 Design System (NXD) into a high-velocity service, delivering a 3.2x improvement in engineering velocity.
Speed to market: Making the complex possible, optimized design-to-development handoffs to deliver a critical strategic project in just 33% of its projected timeline.
Organizational growth: Successfully scaled the design organization at Nuri by 60% within a single quarter.

Talent density

High-performance culture: Managed multidisciplinary teams of up to 15 members, maintaining a 8.0 Peakon engagement score even during strategic headcount redistributions at N26.
Crisis management: Navigated intense company restructuring at Nuri (which included mass layoffs of 46%) while sustaining high team engagement by prioritizing transparency and psychological safety.
Team development: Co-authored the N26 UX Hiring Blueprint to raise the bar for global recruitment and actively mentored senior individual contributors into management roles.

Featured articles

Why prompting a screen is not product design

Why faster execution won’t fix a broken product strategy

The Future of UI: the end of the average user

Projects

**N26 Investing**

Turning isolated features into a scalable upgrade engine through contextual UX.

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**N26 Memberships**

Turning isolated features into a scalable upgrade engine through contextual UX.

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UX • Branding • DesignFrom foundational brand building to systemic UX leadership.